Rita Spalding paints a traffic signal box at Pleasant Run Parkway and Arlington Avenue. The public art project is presented by Foundation East. provided by Rita Spalding

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Have you noticed the latest painted traffic signal boxes in Irvington by Rita Spalding? Traffic Signal Boxes Vol. II is a project by Foundation East, a group that is working to stimulate interest and appreciation for Eastside businesses, neighborhoods and the people who live there.

Spalding's paintings are skillful, large-scale arrangements of fruit, vegetables, pottery and even a bird's nest.

"My inspiration on both boxes was the organic/natural side of the neighborhood; so many people here have and appreciate beautiful gardens and our old-growth trees," Spalding wrote in a ...